Description
Cloddfa'r Coed slate quarry was located on the east side of Talysarn. It was a small, late-eighteenth century working that opened intermittently until well into the twentieth century. Other than in the 1890s tonnages were very small: in 1873, for example, four men produced eight tons.
In the 1940s it was acquired by Dorothea but not worked. The site has since been landscaped.
Sources:
Lindsay 1974 (Hist. N Wales Slate Ind.), 314)
Ordnance Survey County Series 25-inch mapping: sheet Caernarvonshire XXI.9, editions of 1899, 1900 & 1916.
A.J.Richards, A Gazeteer of the Welsh Slate Industry (1991), p.48.
David Leighton, RCAHMW, 22 June 2015
